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"It is clear that we missed the mark" - Jagex cancels RuneScape Reignited less than two weeks after it was announced, due to fierce player feedback

2 days ago by iamthetot to c/pcgaming

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A new and visually improved version of RuneScape has been scrapped shortly after its reveal, following fears it would split the playerbase.

frongt 9 points 2 days ago

People play RuneScape because it's old school. Don't try to fix what's not broken.

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redhorsejacket 10 points 2 days ago

However it's also worth noting Jagex did do this for a reason. The in-game economy of RuneScape has been hyper-inflated for a while now, making the process of creating a new character and progressing through to the endgame a daunting progress due to gargantuan prices. For example, a Bond (exchangeable for a month of premium membership) sells for 11.2m coins on Old School RuneScape. On regular RuneScape, a bond sells for 141.3m coins.

Idk, sounds at least a little broken to me.

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frongt 7 points 2 days ago

If everything is priced in millions of coins, redenominate and adjust the currency lifecycle. For example, if every time you kill a goblin you get one coin, that's free money created out of nothing. You need to have somewhere the player is spending and destroying that money.

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CanadianCorhen 3 points 2 days ago

People love to complain about the GE tax, but god it must help fight inflation

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ICastFist 2 points a day ago

I think that's something that hasn't been fully "solved" in any MMO. Money gets created out of nothing and, with enough time, prices inflate into absurdity. Even with auction house taxes and other sinks that forces players to spend their money, they still end up creating more money than is destroyed.

Trying to implement a wealth tax system would be hard, as players could easily find loopholes in order to avoid paying most or all of it, whether by using alts or keeping most of the money as things that wouldn't enter the math for their "net worth". Not to mention that, depending on the setting, it would create a massive shitstorm.

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dgdft 6 points 2 days ago

Yeah but they did nothing to change the standard rates of gold flowing into and out of the game. A “fresh start” might help as a brief one-off, but it’s not fixing the root of the problem in the slightest.

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Sanctus 3 points 2 days ago

Damn was kinda excited for that. Its been thirty years, we can have new things.

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